RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER | Over and Out

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner in January 1990

Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Richard Artschwager, March – November 1990

This work is in very good condition overall. There is light evidence of wear and handling along the exterior of the artist’s frame. Under very close inspection, some minor cracking is visible in the lower right corner. Under Ultraviolet inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed in an artist's frame.
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"The neutrality of touch, coloration, and imagery in most of Artschwager's work is conscious but not intended as cynical. Despite the enigmatic social meaning of such imagery Artschwager meant to avoid expressions of anxiety and alienation. He hoped instead to elevate for contemplation all variety of depicted things, once again to situate art outside boundaries, especially those of appropriateness, taste and convention."
Richard Armstrong, in Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Artschwager, Richard, 1988, p. 26